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Their welfare is my chief concern; and what I have to learn from you is, How do you propose to benefit them by maintaining a monastery, church and schools in their vicinity?" Again Del Fortis gave a furtive glance upward. Seeing that the King's eyes were steadily fixed upon him, he quickly lowered his own, and gave answer in an evidently prepared manner.
It is a very ancient and popular belief that if a hairy man is not sensual he is strong: vir pilosus aut libidinosus aut fortis. The Greeks insisted on the hairy nates of Hercules, and Ninon de l'Enclos, when the great Condé shared her bed without touching her, remarked, on seeing his hairy body: "Ah, Monseigneur, que vous devez être fort!"
One day it is 'for, another 'against. In this particular case it is diplomatically indifferent, except in one or two cases where papal money has found its way into the newspaper offices." At that moment the door was flung open, and Monsignor Del Fortis was ceremoniously ushered into the presence of his Majesty.
Suetonius enumerates, among their ancestral honours, twenty-eight Consulships, five Dictators, seven Censorial commissions, and seven triumphs: their cognomen of Nero, he says, means in the Sabine tongue "vigorous and bold," fortis et strenuus; and the long history of the Claudian House does not belie their gallant name.
At the opening of the season, Mr. Goodyear received a letter from a house in Paris, making him a handsome offer for the use of his process of curing India-rubber with aqua fortis. Here was a chance for him to rise out of his misery.
And if I misremember not, I have already told you in this Treatise, that the purer Crystals of fine Silver made with Aqua fortis, though they appear White, will presently Dye the Skin and Nails, with a Black, or at least a very Dark Colour, which Water will not wash off, as it will ordinary Ink from the same parts.
Party spirit is a universal solvent; it is the great acid, the aqua fortis of political alchemy, which eats through bands of steel and corrodes pillars of iron in its acrid virulence, till the whole engine of a nation's government is crumbled and dissolved into a shapeless and a worse than useless mass of broken metal.
But circumstances, over which I had no control, prevented my doing so. My offer of help is tardy, I know, but it is none the less sincere." "Thank you," replied Eve, conscious of a feeling of pleasant reliance in this new-found ally. "But I have good friends the Padre Fortis, my uncle, and a friend of ours, Mr. FitzHenry." "Of the Kittiwake at Mahon?" "Yes." "I have the pleasure of knowing Mr.
Take your shee Fox Skins, nail them upon a board as strait as you can, then brush them as clean as you can, then take Aqua Fortis, and put into it a six pence, and still put in more as long as it will dissolve it, then wash your skin over with this water, and set it to dry in the sun; and when it is dry, wash it over with the spirits of wine; this must be done in hottest time of Summer.
And just here is a good place to say that your radical your fire-eater, agitator, and revolutionary who dips his pen in aqua fortis, and punctuates with blood is almost without exception, met socially, a very gentle, modest and suave individual. William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Horace Greeley, Fred.
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